US premiere
Installation / Audio & Reading Experience / Visual Art
A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, Sister Sylvester’s Constantinopoliad is a handmade book, read collectively by the audience inside of a sound installation. The work is Inspired by the blank and torn-out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic,” the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.
